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Kingdom Hall, Carlisle
Kingdom Hall
Street:-   Charlotte Street
locality:-   Caldewgate
civil parish:-   Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   buildings
coordinates:-   NY39695557
1Km square:-   NY3955
10Km square:-   NY35
references:-   Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 7) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Congl. Chapel"

evidence:-   database:- Listed Buildings 2010
placename:-  Kingdom Hall of the Jehovah's Witnesses
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"KINGDOM HALL OF THE JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES / / CHARLOTTE STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386664 / NY3969155572"
source data:-  
courtesy of English Heritage
"Congregational Church now Jehovah's Witnesses. Foundation stone dated 30 APRIL 1860, by Ralph Nicholson of Halifax; extension dated on foundation stone 5 AUGUST 1878, by the same architect. Quarry-faced calciferous sandstone with flush quoins and flying buttresses. Graduated greenslate roofs, pyramidal in centre with finial; ashlar ridge chimney stacks. 3-storey central octagonal drum has flanking 2-storey, 3- and 4-bay wings; further 3-bay left extension. Drum has 3 faces at front and rear, each face having pointed arched blind ground floor windows and 5-light first floor lancets; tracery windows above in gabled 1/2 dormers, but one on each side has an uninscribed stone panel instead. Wings have pointed arched doorways the one on the right, up steps, within a gabled stone porch. Pointed porch and lancets some of them paired. Extension has similar door in gabled porch and lancets. Lecture room has apsidal ends, lancets and traceried windows."
"INTERIOR of drum has had all fixtures and fittings removed; the galleries remain, boxed in with false ceiling. Beaty (1905) says "the arrangements of the interior are not satisfactory". Plans for the extension are in Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/1094. (Beaty: Illustrated Guide to Carlisle: 1905-: P.40)."

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